SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing SQL 62 53 59
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.23% 9.80% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.67% 30.81% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 40
10th Percentile £310 £354 £324
25th Percentile £400 £363 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £583
90th Percentile £575 £668 £650
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £27.13 -
South West median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 -
% change year-on-year +175.32% - -

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 172 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.99% 31.79% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 99 137
10th Percentile £350 £348 £300
25th Percentile £406 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £439
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% +0.06% -7.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £613 £630 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 40 64
10th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £67.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -2.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £77.85
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
2 10 (16.13%) Power Platform
3 8 (12.90%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) AWS
5 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 4 (6.45%) SaaS
5 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.61%) dbt
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.61%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.61%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) 3GPP
1 2 (3.23%) 4G
1 2 (3.23%) 5G
1 2 (3.23%) 5G NR
1 2 (3.23%) Ethernet
1 2 (3.23%) LTE
1 2 (3.23%) Microwave Backhaul
1 2 (3.23%) MPLS
1 2 (3.23%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (3.23%) VoLTE
1 2 (3.23%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Power BI
2 8 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.06%) Delta Lake
3 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.45%) Tableau
5 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.84%) Neo4j
5 3 (4.84%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.23%) Metadata
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.61%) Big Data
7 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.61%) Looker
7 1 (1.61%) Power Query
7 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
1 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
General
1 17 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.13%) Local Government
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Billing
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Data Engineer
1 13 (20.97%) Senior
2 12 (19.35%) Analyst
3 11 (17.74%) Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Applications Support
5 7 (11.29%) Support Officer
6 6 (9.68%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (8.06%) Application Security Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) Data Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) Security Analyst
7 5 (8.06%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) ERP Support
10 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) REST
2 3 (4.84%) Kafka
2 3 (4.84%) PySpark
2 3 (4.84%) RESTful
3 2 (3.23%) JAX-RS
3 2 (3.23%) JDBC
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) Middleware
3 2 (3.23%) Pandas
3 2 (3.23%) React
3 2 (3.23%) SOAP
3 2 (3.23%) Spring
3 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.23%) Web Services
3 2 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (1.61%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.61%) JPA
4 1 (1.61%) Next.js
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
1 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (29.03%) Analytics
3 16 (25.81%) Agile
4 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
5 14 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (20.97%) Data Engineering
7 12 (19.35%) DevOps
8 10 (16.13%) Application Security
8 10 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (16.13%) Data Security
8 10 (16.13%) ETL
9 9 (14.52%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.90%) Decision-Making
11 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
11 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
11 7 (11.29%) Data Science
11 7 (11.29%) Validation
12 6 (9.68%) AI
12 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
12 6 (9.68%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) Python
2 8 (12.90%) Java
3 3 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.23%) C
4 2 (3.23%) Go
4 2 (3.23%) R
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.61%) Scala
5 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (33.87%) Data Quality
2 11 (17.74%) GDPR
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) PERC
4 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Terraform
2 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Databricks
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) NEC
4 4 (6.45%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Oracle
6 2 (3.23%) webMethods
7 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.61%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.61%) Braze
7 1 (1.61%) Facebook
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) SAP